Video Competition
Each year a video competition is held to showcase MRSEC-related research in a short video. Any Brandeis-affiliated undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, staff or faculty member is eligible to enter and make a video about Brandeis-MRSEC research.
2022 Video Competition Now Closed. Winner will be announced shortly.
2021 Winners
2021 Winner: Graduate student Zahra Zarei for "Active Nematic Confined to Annuli"
2021 Runner Up: SMURF student Sungwon Cho for "Photo-regulated self-assembly of DNA duplexes"
2019 Winners
2019 Winner: Graduate student Farri Mohajerani for "Cargo Encapsulation by Nanoshells"
2019 Runner Up: Post-doc Dr. Simon Merminod for "Artificial Butterflies: Characterizing Interfacial Binding to Design"
2019 Runner Up: Graduate student Ali Aghvami for "XScreen Chip"
2018 Winners
2018 Winner: Kang Liu for “Inferring Capsid Assembly Kinetics from Experimental Observation”
2018 Runner Up: Maria Eleni Moustaka for "Exploring the Non-Linear Dynamics of Chemical Oscillator Networks"
2018 Runner Up: Dhruv Dang for "Investigating the Interference of Influenza Viral Fusion by Antibody 'HC19'"
2018 Runner Up: Ashanti Sallee for "Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly For Inhibiting Prostate Cancer"
2017 Winners
2017 Winner: Shashank Shekhar for "Microfluidics-assisted high resolution microscopy as a tool to study cytoskeleton dynamics”
2017 Runner Up: Dr. Salvatore Alioto for "Actin Cable Reconstitution"
2017 Runner Up: Gabriel Bronk for "Computer Simulations of Chromosomes"
2017 Runner Up: Dr. Julian Eskin for "Force Generation through Polymerization"
A National Science Foundation sponsored Material Research Science and Engineering Center